[PATCH] Add USB to MPC8349 PB platform support

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jul 18 05:16:42 EST 2006


On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Li Yang wrote:

> On 7/14/06, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>> Nack, my expectation is this is all setup by the boot loader.
>
> That's a good wish. ;)  However, USB is not required by bootloader. So
> it is not likely to be initialized there.  And if we put it in
> bootloader, it will be hard to change the mode(MPH/DR), which requires
> a re-burn of bootloader.  It's better that we make sure it's correctly
> configured here.

I disagree.  You are coming from this from a board that does  
everything under the sun.  I'd like to avoid having this type of  
initialization in the kernel.  There is a whole additional kitchen  
sink that could move into the kernel as well.

- kumar 
  



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